Category: American Revolution
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An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight for America (2014) by Nick Bunker
The events leading up to the American Revolution have been the subject of seemingly endless historical debate. In An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America, journalist-turned-historian Nick Bunker offers a crisp, compelling narrative that, to my reading, suggests the growing confrontation between Britain and its North American colonies had become all…
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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (2023) by Stacy Schiff
Today, most Americans think of Samuel Adams (1722-1803) mostly as one of the original best selling craft beers, which first hit American grocery shelves in 1984. Even as an avid reader of early American history, I must confess that my understanding of Adams’s specific role in the American Revolution was limited to his clandestine agitation…
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Paul Revere’s Ride (1994) by David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer writes delightful books. He expertly combines the breezy readability of a master popular historian with the professional craftsmanship and deep primary research of a top rate academic. The end result is a narrative that is at once a dazzling adventure tale and a groundbreaking piece of historiography. The adventure tale aspect of…
